Kharif crop sowing is 16 percent lower this season. This delay is attributed to a weak monsoon and El Nino effects. Area under pulses and c...

India's monsoon has weakened, increasing the rainfall deficit to eighteen percent. This dry spell threatens kharif sowing momentum, impacti...

India's rice export prices have increased due to higher reserve prices and planting delays. Bangladesh rice prices remain firm as flood fea...

India is implementing contingency plans for over 300 vulnerable districts facing a potentially weak monsoon. With rains currently 43% below...

Indian farmers are planting more soybeans this year. Higher prices for soybeans are making them more profitable than corn. Forecasts of les...

India faces below-average rainfall for the next two weeks. Western disturbances are delaying the monsoon's progress, particularly in centra...

India experienced its highest monsoon rainfall since 2020, with above-average precipitation for three consecutive months, aiding recovery f...

Indian farmers have ramped up the planting of summer-sown crops like paddy, soybean, cotton, and corn due to above-average monsoon rainfall...

Commodity-wise, paddy sowing is at 328.22 lakh hectares, as against 312.80 lakh hectares same period last year. Notably, India in July amen...

This year, the delayed arrival of monsoon rains and lower rainfall in some southern, eastern and central states impacted planting of summer...

The ministry's data showed that the sowing area under pulses and coarse cereals is higher year-on-year, while the acreage of rice and oilse...

The increased food prices will ultimately compel the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to go for another rate hike in order to bring inflation ba...

Sowing of kharif crops begins with the onset of southwest monsoon from June. Monsoon rainfall was lower eight per cent between June 1 and A...

Harvesting is in its peak in Haryana, Punjab, UP and is likely to be completed by the end of April 2020. Punjab has deployed 18000 combines...

Warehousing corporation should empanel private players and sign MoUs (memoranda of understanding) with them as Gujarat and Rajasthan state ...

Area under kharif crops other than cash crops has increased by 5 per cent to 1,046.32 lakh hectare so far this season on account of good mo...

Area under kharif crops, including paddy, has increased by 17.70 per cent to 747.78 lakh hectares so far in the ongoing kharif season.